cavalrymen needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 302 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cavalrymen is the highest-scoring word from cavalrymen, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 302 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in cavalrymen — and it is cavalrymen itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cavalrymen. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cravenly, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cavalrymen produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caramel. For points, the strongest plays are calvary, cavalry, and valency — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cavalrymen turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camera and nearly. For points, the strongest plays are cayman and creamy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 79 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cavalrymen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarm, camel and carve. For points, the strongest plays are marvy and vacay — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cavalrymen produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, area and army. For points, the strongest play is cavy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cavalrymen turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, are and arm. For points, the strongest play is myc — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cavalrymen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and ay. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
cavalrymen is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for cavalrymen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
cavalrymen is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cavalrymen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cavalrymen, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cavalrymen earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in cavalrymen produce 302 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 79 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.